Former Klux Klux Klan Grand Wizard Tom Metzger says Donald Trump’s recent decision to tap Breitbart Media’s Steve Bannon as his campaign CEO amounts to dog whistling that most people won’t hear, but that will appeal to “closeted racists.”
Metzger, who has been described as “one of the most notorious living white supremacists in the United States” by the Southern Poverty Law Center and served as the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s, knows there aren’t enough white supremacists to swing a presidential election. But he says there are plenty of voters who secretly harbor racist feelings that they keep to themselves for fear of being stigmatized.